In Africa, pregnant women and young children are the most vulnerable to malaria.
However, malaria control interventions and strategies have achivied important results in the last years.
COVID-19 has now made these interventions critical, and could undo the results obtained so far, as highlighted by scientists in the Lancet: https://bit.ly/2Tfyxwn.
Potentially, COVID-19 could indirectly cause more deaths than it already does directly, in the context of Africa’s weak and fragile health systems.
INTEGRATION+ is an implementation research focused on malaria in pregnancy, with the potential to change national health prevention policies to protect an additional 13 million pregnant women each year from
Pregnant women, babies and children under 5 years of age are the most vulnerable to malaria. In 2018, around 11 million pregnant women and 24 million children got malaria. Furthermore,
Exemplary coordination of African researchers and scientists involved in the response to the pandemic to study treatments that prevent serious complications of COVID-19 https://bit.ly/37SvaCz